Improvement in wool-packers



' To alt whom it may concern:

Nrrnn ABsALoM sAneEn, or MEADVILLII, PENNSYLVANIA.'

lMPROVEMENT IN` OOL=PACKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,752, dated February 20, 1866.

Be it known that I, ABsALoM SAEGER, ol' Meadville, in the county of Crawford, State fof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Packing Wool; and I do hereby declare thatthe following isa full Fig. 2.)

0 l? represents a woolsack which is drawn -on over the tube A,4and is kept in its place by an elastic band. (Shown-at P.)

E is another tube of like sizeof A. This portion of the tube is attached to two levers, one of which is'shown at F F, Fig. l, and both at F F, Fig. 2, Fig. 2 beng'an end View of my ma' chine. 5 v The levers F F are nung on a' fulorum, R, and by means of these levers the part E of the tube can be raised up to the position of E', (shownlby the dotted lines on Fig. 1,) and may be kept and held in this position byLplaeing the lever F under the catch S. `In thetubeE is afollower. (Shown at K, Fig. 2.) Attached to this follower are two cogged racks, G G, Fig. v2, one of which is fully shown at G, Fig. 1 These are attached to the fol' I -lower by thelscrewfbolt W. From W to V is a slot in E, through which the boltW passes when the follower is drawnin toward 0.

C C, Fig. 2, one of which is fully shown atfC,

the crank and two pinions, D D.

'follows, to wit: The wool-sack 0 P is placed shown in Fig. l, is lled with Wool. Then by means of the leverF F it is raised tothepov sition showuby E', the cogged rack dropping `on the wheel G.` Now, on turning the crank M the follower X'or K is drawn toward O, pushing the wool into the sack 0 P, and at the same time the sack intot-he tube A. This operation is repeated until the sack is filled,

. lwhen it is drawn out of the large end of the tube A.

to secure byv Letters Patent of the United States is as follows, to wit:

lconstructed as described, and in-theat'oresaid combination, and for the purposes set'forth, f

"Witnesses: v

A. B. RICHMOND,

IRA .EL PIERCE.

The racks F F gear into two cogged wheels, Fig. l. Thesecogged wheels are operated by l rlhe mode of operating my machine is as over the tubel A. E, While in the position' What I claim 4vas my invention, and desire' The tubes A and E, in combination with the lower X K and the roller H, operated by the ABsALoM sneden. 

